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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. Speaking from experience, around 2006 the ceiling on discretionary spending decisions dropped precipitously in many companies. Ironically, it had the opposite effect.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. APIs are forever.

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